So I had an excellent haul at a library sale. I picked up an omnibus of the first three Vlad Taltos books, the first of MANLY WADE WELLMAN's Silver John books, the first of Zelazny's Merlin of Amber series, a couple L'Amour novels I didn't have, McCullough's 1776, and the first volume of The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith.
I also received the second omnibus of Vance's Demon Princes books and Creatures of Light and Darkness in the mail.
Why did I do this to myself right before starting college again? Heck if I know...
But I burned through the Taltos books and enjoyed them. Much like the Dresden Files, it really shows that they're Brust's first books, but the awesomeness shines through the little slips and hitches.
I'm now partway through MANLY WADE WELLMAN's The Old Gods Waken, which I'm finding not quite as enthralling as Hok the Mighty (thank God for Planet Stories!) but still pretty dang cool. It's similar to Alvin Maker in that it draws on classic American folklore that doesn't get a lot of attention.